Myths and Legends Explained, the world's most enduring myths and legends explored and expained by Neil Philip

"Previously published as Annotated Guides: Myths and Legends" ----T.p. verso

Includes index

Integrates works of art and artifacts with text while examining fifty of the most popular myths and legends from cultures and civilizations around the world

Introduction -- Egypt -- The creation -- Re, the sun god -- Osiris, Isis, and Horus -- Sumeria -- The epic of Gilgamesh -- Iran -- Ahura Mazda and Ahriman -- Greece and Rome -- Gods of Olympus -- Prometheus -- Aphrodite and Ares -- The rape of Persephone -- Orpheus and Eurydice -- Aphrodite and Adonis -- Cupid and Psyche -- Artemis and Actaeon -- Apollo and Daphne -- King Midas -- Pan and Syrinx -- Zeus and Danaë -- Perseus and Andromeda -- The tragedy of Oedipus -- The labors of Hercules -- Jason and the Golden Fleece -- Theseus the hero -- The minotaur -- Dionysus and Ariadne -- Leda and the swan -- The judgement of Paris -- Odysseus returns home -- Dido and Aeneas -- Northern Europe -- The Norse gods -- The world tree myth -- Sigurd the dragon-slayer -- Lohengrin -- The story of Väinämöinen -- Celtic -- Lord of the beasts -- The Holy Grail -- Tristan and Isolde -- The death of Arthur -- West Africa -- Eshu the trickster -- The cosmic serpent -- The Caribbean -- The voodoo gods -- North America -- Mountainway -- Lone man -- Myths of the Arctic Circle -- Central America -- Legends of Quetzalcoatl -- The hero twins -- Australia -- The dreaming -- The killing of Lumaluma -- Polynesia -- Maui-of-a-Thousand-Tricks -- India -- The churning of the ocean -- The avatars of Vishnu -- Shiva and his family -- Rama and Sita -- China -- The tne suns of heaven -- The eight immortals -- Japan -- The sacred mountain -- Amaterasu hides away -- The Greek gods

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